I'll get some photos of the failed ones up later - with the chassis they are mostly one end come lose during printing so it's curved downward slightly either one or both sides at the end. For the bodies they are mostly part complete ones that printing stopped part way through, so could be cut down to make lowsides or flats .

Some just fit for scenic use, but most usable with some work

I'm thinking of doing grab bags £15 for - 10 chassis or bodies or mixture of both that are usable or £5 for 10 item only fit for scenic use . I need to work out what postage will be - they introduced new regulations here this year which says you can't use letter post for packets more than 30mm thick. Unfortunately international parcel post is about 13 Euros minimum, as it goes up to 500 gram in the initial band so it makes it very expensive to send cheap light packets.

I'm going to try see if I can put these into a large flat padded envelope with minimal packing and stay under the 30mm limit.

Tom

To know the meaning of life you need not to be dealt a good hand, but rather to play the worthless hand you have been dealt to the best of your ability.

Tom, it sounds like you are progressing, but it is also making me even more likely to stay with online printing. Simply not enough time to perfect 3D printing myself. The postage issue is not surprising, as something similar was done here in UK, except that international post seems to be cheaper. New changes are also in line with other parcels delivery companies and are based on size more than weight. This might only be a trial, as people in post office told me they were not certain if it would continue.Grab bags and boxes of misprints would be popular at exhibitions though.

interesting comparison. One thing to remember is that the way to paint Shapeways models is different as the plastic sucks in so much liquid. Low cost matchpots of emulsion work better on the Shapeways plastic. It will be interesting to see what the home printed versions look like when you are near to 100% success rate.

They are HO 33inch scale wheels which equates out to about 9 inch in 1:24 which is in turn about the smallest size you would find on a 15 inch gauge skips. I would really prefer 36inch HO ones but have exhausted my stock of that size.

15 inch gauge skips are almost all fairly small and that means they only carry a light load, which in turn lets the manufacturer use small wheels. 9 or 10 inch would be typical, even many of the small 2ft gauge skips only have 10 inch wheels.

As you correctly notice the Shapeways has nothing supporting the intermediate planks of the floor - it should have really, but I designed the body to be used with different width skip chassis, so would end up being wrong on some of those - one of the penalties of re-using design elements, so I left them out, the new version will only be made to fit this chassis so I took the opportunity to put them back in.

Tom

To know the meaning of life you need not to be dealt a good hand, but rather to play the worthless hand you have been dealt to the best of your ability.

Well I'm finally both free of flu and mostly caught up with my various jobs. I've managed to get a decent stock of home printed skip based wagon bodies and chassis printed, so will be getting them onto ebay during the next week.

Prices are around £3 for a skip chassis and from £2 for a flat to £6.50 for the box bodies, but if anyone on here wants some you can contact me and I'll supply direct at 20% discount.

Picks will follow when I do them for the ebay listing.

Still not had a reply from my wheel supplier

Tom

To know the meaning of life you need not to be dealt a good hand, but rather to play the worthless hand you have been dealt to the best of your ability.

I've just received one of your wagons as a Christmas present (someone read the "suggested presents" email I sent around!) Great detail, and I've just popped the 36" wheels in. I'll be ordering more from your shop in the new year!